Upgraded from Lumia 800 to Lumia 920 since a couple of weeks. All good, love the phone love the platform but for the love of me the notifications are dreadful. I mean, some work fine like Whatsapp (wich my group of friends, with androids, iphones and wp, use), but for example facebook's are a disaster. Some come through, others don't, a few days later, a few hours later, who knows. Then after you see them they don't disappear from the tile etc. Facebook notifications being a mess is really incomprehensible because they come through fine on the integrated Facebook (on the Me tile), but not on the app. Also, the fact that now the app supports the new WP8 lockscreen notifications, makes it even more unnerving, because they can never be trusted. What gives?
And please, don't give me the "who cares if you miss the notificaion saying that your mom liked your cat pic" because it's not about that, is about the service not working properly and me convincing friends to switch (because they are indeed impressed with the Lumia 920 and WP in general) and then being disappointing because notifications on the iphone worked sooo much better!
My second grip is the new integrated Skype. All good and fine, except the notifications are a chaos too. I love that it's always on,the thing is that at work we also use skype, so I was curious to see how the notifications were going to be handled when I have skype on on my work PC. To my surprise the messages were not popping as toast notifications on the phone beginning of the week, so I was wow cool, so it knows i have client on the pc too so it doesn't bother me. Wrong. Now all of a sudden today, without changing anything at all, toasts popup all the time when somebody chats with me on the PC. Madness.
Also, i don't think it's only on windows phone. At home I have windows 8 and I had to uninstall the metro app, because it was madness too. messages would popup on the phone and pc at random/different times, messages from the afternoon or before would start popping-up like mad after the contact i chatted with before came online etc.
Anyone has similar/different experience with notifications on WP (or windows 8 for that matter?). I think that more than the lack of certain apps (like instagram, spotify etc) on the platform, it's this broken notifications that bothers me the most.
Cheers,
Luis
And please, don't give me the "who cares if you miss the notificaion saying that your mom liked your cat pic" because it's not about that, is about the service not working properly and me convincing friends to switch (because they are indeed impressed with the Lumia 920 and WP in general) and then being disappointing because notifications on the iphone worked sooo much better!
My second grip is the new integrated Skype. All good and fine, except the notifications are a chaos too. I love that it's always on,the thing is that at work we also use skype, so I was curious to see how the notifications were going to be handled when I have skype on on my work PC. To my surprise the messages were not popping as toast notifications on the phone beginning of the week, so I was wow cool, so it knows i have client on the pc too so it doesn't bother me. Wrong. Now all of a sudden today, without changing anything at all, toasts popup all the time when somebody chats with me on the PC. Madness.
Also, i don't think it's only on windows phone. At home I have windows 8 and I had to uninstall the metro app, because it was madness too. messages would popup on the phone and pc at random/different times, messages from the afternoon or before would start popping-up like mad after the contact i chatted with before came online etc.
Anyone has similar/different experience with notifications on WP (or windows 8 for that matter?). I think that more than the lack of certain apps (like instagram, spotify etc) on the platform, it's this broken notifications that bothers me the most.
Cheers,
Luis